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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Fair jacket. 1st ed. 28.5 x 20.0 cms. Limited ed. of 500 copies. Pp. xii, 162. Titlepage printed in red and black with vignette and 31 fullpage drawings by Mervyn Peake, printed on hand-made paper, with limitation slip present, bound in black buckram with red Peake design on upper board, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt. Dust wrapper, with design by Peake, foxed and torn with slight loss, owner's details in pencil on front free end paper, small light stain on upper board. (ac11)
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Seller's Description:
Mervyn Peake. Very Good Indeed. A pleasing first limited edition copy of Maurice Collis's retelling of a section from the Sanskrit epic 'The Ramayana'. Copiously illustrated throughout by the renowned English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake. This edition, printed on English hand-made paper, was limited to five hundred copies for sale. This copy is lacking the original dustwrapper, as usual. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with red stamped pictorial design to the front board. Externally excellent, with minor shelfwear to extremities and head and tail of spine. Ink mark and evidence of slip tipped to front free-endpaper, now removed. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Limited edition colophon slip loosely inserted to title page. Institutional stamp to the title page Very Good Indeed.
